Нассим Николас Талеб: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)

Цитаты на английском языке.
Нассим Николас Талеб: 269   цитат 263   Нравится

“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”

Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p.58

“You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 30

“What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable … no matter how much hate mail I get.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 138

“In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4

“It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 78

“Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 171

“Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21

“It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 9

“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27

“What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 40

“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 101

“Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26